Riot Vanguard Disaster - Is a Kernel-Level Anti-Cheat safe? - The Four Horsemen S3E6 (ft Yasukeh)

Richard Lewis, Thorin, and MonteCristo are joined by retired former Challenger player Yasukeh to discuss Riot Vanguard: Riot Games's anti-cheat used for VALORANT, League of Legends, and Teamfight Tactics. Further topics include the intrusiveness levels of kernel-level anti-cheat systems, Riot's claims on why Vanguard is needed, Reddit Moderators deleting comments and threads discussing Vanguard, and more.

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Yasukeh's new video on Vanguard:    • Riot's Vanguard League Rollout Is Worse Th...  

Riot Games /dev post on Vanguard in LoL: https://www.leagueoflegends.com/en-us...

Reddit Thread on Vanguard's LoL rollout: https://old.reddit.com/r/leagueoflege...

Deleted comments from the above Reddit thread: https://undelete.pullpush.io/r/league...

The Four Horsemen is the premier esports industry show that reacts to important news and critical conversations across all major titles. Esports veterans Duncan "Thorin" Shields, Richard Lewis, and Christopher "MonteCristo" Mykles use their decades of experience to shed light and debate on key esports topics as they emerge. Each episode they are joined by an expert guest to help further provide insider information on the topic at hand.

This episode was filmed on May 14th, 2024.

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0:00:00 - Intro
0:07:49 - What are kernel-level anti-cheats?
0:37:06 - Riot's claims on why Vanguard is necessary
0:45:03 - The LoL rollout and Reddit shenanigans
1:28:23 - No false positives claim + screenshot ability
1:36:08 - What is the end goal of Vanguard?
1:41:07 - VALORANT and Vanguard + problems in LoL
2:00:24 - Closing thoughts

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